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J. HILTON. WOVEN FABRIC. No. 457,765. Patented Augnll, 1891.

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NITED, STATES JOHN HILTON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS BEVERIDGE, OF SAME PLACE.

WOVEN FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,765, dated August 11, 1891.

Application filed March 19,. 1891- Serial No. 385,609- (No specimens.)

To 60% whom it may concern.- being used. Such a cloth combines in one Be it known that I, JOHN HILTON, a citizen article the cleansing and polishing properties of the United States, residing at Paterson, in of the chamois with those of the silk, linen, the county of Passaic and State of New Jercotton, or other material with which it is sey,have invented a new and useful Improve woven. Y ment in 'WOVen Fabrics, of which the follow- The fabric herein described may not only ing is a specification. be used dry, but it may also be used with My invention relates to fabrics in which water. The use of water does not render the different materials are woven together. chamois stiff and harsh, but the latter re- IO The object of my invention is to produce a mains soft and pliable, as it was before being fabricin which chamois or similar material is wet. The cloth, besides being used for clean woven in with the body portion of the cloth, ing and polishing glass, metal, 850., is excelin order to combine in one article the advanlent as toweling, and may be used for washtages of the chamois with the interwoven maing and drying the skin of the body, the

r 5 terial for purposes ofcleaning,polishing,drychamois producing just enough friction to k, gently stimulate the circulation, causing a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is glow of warmth to theskin. a top view or plan of such a fabric, and Fig. The fabric maybe Woven on hand or power 2 is a sectional View, on an enlarged scale, of looms and with any desired weave, it being 20 a portion of the same on the line sea: of Fig. i. kept in mind that the weave of the body por- A is the chaniois, B B are the warp-threads, tion should be rather open for the purpose of and O O are the weft-threads or filling. making the cloth pliable, so that the edges of For the purpose of making the fabric herethe strips of chamois may be presented to the in described, the chamois is cut into narrow object upon which the cloth is used and also 2 5 strips and the ends are stitched or otherwise to allow the cloth itself to be easily cleaned. 7

fastened together, or the ends maybe lapped What I claim as new, and desire to secure over each other or simply placed end to end, by Letters Patent, is as, the chamois being soft, thewarp-threads 1. As a new article of manufacture,a cloth sink somewhat into it and hold it firmly, so consisting of a loosely-woven body portion 0 that it cannot slip out. I find'that the best with chamois-skin or similar material cut results are obtained by cutting 'the chamois into strips and woven as weft at intervals into strips of from an eighth to a quarter of through the body of the cloth, substantially an inch in width and weaving it as filling in as shown and described,and for the purposes the body portion of the cloth at intervals of set forth.

3 5 from a quarter to half an inch, as shown in 2. As a new article of manufacture, a cloth 8 5 Fig. 1, though of course other widths for the adapted for cleaning and polishing purposes, strips and other intervals between the same consisting of a body portion of woven textile may be adopted. The meshes of the body material and narrow strips of chamois-skin or portion of the cloth should be rather open,as similar material woven at intervals as weft 40 shown in Fig. 1. through said body portion, the warp and weft 0 In the use of chamois for cleaning, polishthreads of the cloth between the said strips ing, &c., the best results are obtained when being loosely woven, forming a rather open the edges of the chamois are used. In a fabmesh to permit the edges of the said strips to ric made as above described there is a very be presented to the surface upon which the 45 great extent of the edge of the chainois eX- cloth is being used, substantially as shown 5 posed, and the weave of the body portion of and described.

the cloth being open, as shown, the fabric is JOHN HILTON. very pliable, so that these edges of the chamois \Vitn esses: are constantly coming into contact with the EUGENE EMLEY,

50 surface of the object upon which the cloth is RAYTON E. HOR'rON. 

